"take a Dixie"

[Philip E. Cleary]

On 8/15/2010 6:15 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
> Google Answers has a question in 2003 that suggests two meanings:
> "took a dixie" meaning a "fall" or "disappearance", as in "taking a powder"

I remember hearing the expression in the mid or late 1970s. A kid
tripped on a toy and fell, and his father said, "You took a dixie."

Phil Cleary

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